Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy
edited by Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-0-299-21933-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-21930-7 Library of Congress Classification ML3845.S6833 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 781.17
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work.
The contributors examine the texts of such highly influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács in relation to individual composers including Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler. Their explorations of the complexities that arise in conceptualizing music as a mode of representation and philosophy as a mode of aesthetic practice thematize the ways in which the fields of music and philosophy are altered when either attempts to express itself in terms defined by the other.
Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jost Hermand is William F. Vilas Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Gerhard Richter is associate professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
REVIEWS
"The complex relations discussed here between German music and philosophy are fascinating, not only to Wagnerites and specialists in German cultural studies, but to anyone interested in the presence of German art and ideas in the United States for the past one hundred years."—James Rolleston, Duke University
"With essays from a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, this book is a wonderful contribution to the study of music, philosophy, and German culture."—Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1. German Music and Philosophy: An Introduction
Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter 000
2. Doppelbewegung: The Philosophical Movement of Music and the Musical Movement of Philosophy
Lydia Goehr 000
3. Brazen Wheels: F. W. J. Schelling on the Origin of Music and Tragedy
David Farrell Krell 000
4. The World as Will and Music: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Music
Ludger Lütkehaus 000
5. The Ring as Deconstruction of Modernity: Reading Wagner with Benjamin
Samuel Weber 000
6. Nietzsche and the Problem of Life-Affirming Content in Music
Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré 000
7. Bloch's Dream, Music's Traces
Gerhard Richter 000
8. Dissonance and Aesthetic Totality: Adorno Reads Schönberg
Beatrice Hanssen 000
9. Thomas Mann: Pro and Contra Adorno
Hans Rudolf Vaget 000
10. The Dialectical Thinker as Composer: Hanns Eisler's Philosophical Reflections on Music
Albrecht Betz 000
11. Double Mimesis: Georg Luk cs's Philosophy of Music
Jost Hermand 000
Contributors 000
Notes 000
Index 000
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Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy
edited by Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-0-299-21933-8 Cloth: 978-0-299-21930-7
The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work.
The contributors examine the texts of such highly influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács in relation to individual composers including Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler. Their explorations of the complexities that arise in conceptualizing music as a mode of representation and philosophy as a mode of aesthetic practice thematize the ways in which the fields of music and philosophy are altered when either attempts to express itself in terms defined by the other.
Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jost Hermand is William F. Vilas Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Gerhard Richter is associate professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
REVIEWS
"The complex relations discussed here between German music and philosophy are fascinating, not only to Wagnerites and specialists in German cultural studies, but to anyone interested in the presence of German art and ideas in the United States for the past one hundred years."—James Rolleston, Duke University
"With essays from a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, this book is a wonderful contribution to the study of music, philosophy, and German culture."—Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1. German Music and Philosophy: An Introduction
Jost Hermand and Gerhard Richter 000
2. Doppelbewegung: The Philosophical Movement of Music and the Musical Movement of Philosophy
Lydia Goehr 000
3. Brazen Wheels: F. W. J. Schelling on the Origin of Music and Tragedy
David Farrell Krell 000
4. The World as Will and Music: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Music
Ludger Lütkehaus 000
5. The Ring as Deconstruction of Modernity: Reading Wagner with Benjamin
Samuel Weber 000
6. Nietzsche and the Problem of Life-Affirming Content in Music
Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré 000
7. Bloch's Dream, Music's Traces
Gerhard Richter 000
8. Dissonance and Aesthetic Totality: Adorno Reads Schönberg
Beatrice Hanssen 000
9. Thomas Mann: Pro and Contra Adorno
Hans Rudolf Vaget 000
10. The Dialectical Thinker as Composer: Hanns Eisler's Philosophical Reflections on Music
Albrecht Betz 000
11. Double Mimesis: Georg Luk cs's Philosophy of Music
Jost Hermand 000
Contributors 000
Notes 000
Index 000
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